“The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.”

—-Arthur Schopenhauer.

“Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so the judgment might be attributed to the will and not to knowledge, which by its nature is cold.” 

—Arthur Schopenhauer. 

“It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limits which reason should impose on the desire for wealth; for there is no absolute or definite amount of wealth which will satisfy a man. The amount is always relative, that is to say, just so much as will maintain the proportion between what he wants and what he gets; for to measure a man’s happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall have a numerator but no denominator. A man never feels the loss of things which it never occurs to him to ask for; he is just as happy without them; whilst another, who may have a hundred times as much, feels miserable because he has not got the one thing he wants. In fact, here too, every man has an horizon of his own, and he will expect as much as he thinks it is possible for him to get. If an object within his horizon looks as though he could confidently reckon on getting it, he is happy; but if difficulties come in the way, he is miserable. What lies beyond his horizon has no effect at all upon him. So it is that the vast possessions of the rich do not agitate the poor, and conversely, that a wealthy man is not consoled by all his wealth for the failure of his hopes. Riches, one may say, are like sea-water; the more you drink the thirstier you become; and the same is true of fame.”
—Arthur Schopenhauer. 

“Men are the devils of the earth and the animals are its tormented souls.” 

—Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (22 Feb 1788-1860). 

“Anything perceived has a cause.

All conclusions have premises. 
All effects have causes. 
All actions have motives.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer. 

​”Nothing is so good a protection against such misery as inward wealth, the wealth of the mind, because the greater it grows, the less room it leaves for boredom. The inexhaustible activity of thought!” -Arthur Schopenhauer (The Wisdom of Life).

“The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time. ”
Arthur Schopenhauer.